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by Nathan Dubois
Yes, I said it. Teachers appreciation week is evil.
But before I get to my reasoning, I will ask any who knows me to admit to themselves that I have been wanting to be an American History high school teacher and later, college professor, ever since I have entertained the idea of retiring at 20 years. Even in my current job, teaching those under me is the single biggest enjoyment with my work that I have. I love to help develop young mind, and in the process, exercise my own.
So here is the BIG problem with this week we are in.
When deployed I can be gone any where from 1 month to 1 year. In the last 3 years I have gone on (2) 6 month deployments and am currently in a 1 year deployment in Okinawa. During this time my wife takes care of the home. She must maintain the house, maintain the cars, drive the kids to (2) separate schools the furthest being 20 miles from the house. She is also a part time student earning 4 credits this semester twice a week in class. Also, my wife is a USMC reservist. During her drill weekends and ANY time she has a college class when the kids are off school, my wife drives over 60 miles to pick up her mother to watch our children. This past Sunday she fired on the rifle range, picked up the kids late driving a 100 mile round trip home and getting everyone to bed in the late evening. Waking up at 6 A.M. the next morning, she took the kids to school, and spent the day working on her homework before driving 40 round tri- miles to pick them up, then cook dinner, help the kids with homework, put them to bed, do more homework, and eventually fall asleep. WHAT A GREAT WIFE!!
Howver, this week is not "Mother Appreciation Week!" She only gets one day to call her own. Instead it is Teacher Appreciation Week, where my wife can add to her duties: buying a fresh flower, helping my daughter make a card for the teacher, and whatever else is "suggested" to do for the teacher on the (3) other remaining days of appreciation. Do you think my wife is so free of distractions and easy on time that she needs to spend (5) days thinking about how to appreciate the teachers of my kids who are PAID to do their job (9) months out of the year? Mommy gets (1) day, the teacher gets (5)?
This is so typical today of the culture that teaches us that teachers are more responsible to teach our children than parents. That a parents, more specifically a Mother's, job is to go to work and pass off their child to daycare. Teachers are so full of themselves in this society that they forget their job every time they sacrifice a kids education so that they can strike for more pay. It is sickening the "honor and glory" our society is placing on the "public servant."
NEWS FLASH: A teacher GETS PAID to do what they do. A parent gladly PAYS for the privilage of being one. A teacher no more deserves reverance than a plumber. They are not Nuns who dedicate their whole lives to the service of God without the comfort of pay and normal living. They are not doctors or missionaries who have left society and comfort to go to Africa to do charity work for the better part of their lives. They are American teachers who recieve a paycheck, pention, and in many cases can graduate your student even if they have never learned to read so long as the teacher has tenure!!
I love my wife. And for that reason I hate this week.
May god Bless Mothers everywhere who dedicate their lives to taking care of their children.
God Bless
Nate
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Re: Teachers appreciation week is evil. (Score: 1)
 by Starlight on Tuesday, May 08 @ 07:49:49 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Nate,
Yes, you have a great wife.
But why is there a need to bash teachers in general? I could write a diatribe expounding how neglectful many parents are who expect teachers to be surrogate parents in their stead. I could also script an article detailing the great teachers that I have had in my life and my children’s as well. Please don’t speak so dogmatically against teachers. If you have specific issues with groups such as teachers unions that are irresponsible go after those groups but don’t saddle all teachers with your animosity.
You know one of the problems that afflict our society is the constant busyness of families and the lack of time to stop and smell the roses. You and your family have chosen to live the life style that you prefer but when you don’t have time to help a child make a card to present to a teacher and at the same time teach the child about honoring people then maybe your family is too busy. But that is your choice and the American way but don’t take it out on all teachers. Also why must you adhere to everything that is recommended? Why not just encourages the child to be respectful and courteous to the teacher, I would think there are other creative ways to appreciate teachers. Also isn’t this one of the attributes that the scriptures encourage us to do is to give honor and respect to those who serve us. There are numerous scriptures that direct this.
Sorry for my rebuking tenor but I really did not appreciate the tone of your article and hope that you will reconsider and challenge yourself to look at this in a more positive way. Especially as you reflect it to your children.
Blessings
Norm
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Nate, where can I get a bumper sticker (Score: 1)
 by JL (j.l.preterist@gmail.com) on Tuesday, May 08 @ 11:21:25 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | If you can read this
Thank your parents |
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Re: Teachers appreciation week is evil. (Score: 1)
 by RevelationMan on Tuesday, May 08 @ 12:56:59 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I hear what you're saying. Why not give teachers another week rather than the same one as Mother's Day week? Both Mothers and teachers (male or female) are deserving of our appreciation and their own week. |
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John Wooden is so "full of himself" =) (Score: 1)
by MichaelB on Tuesday, May 08 @ 13:50:49 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | That evil UCLA coach / teacher John Wooden. He was so "full of himself" =)
To Quote the full of himself teacher...
It all leads up, to my way of thinking. Perhaps it wouldn't to somebody else, but it does to me. In trying to use that in helping me become a better teacher, I found I could help those under my supervision be better. In the mid-'30s, about the time I coined my definition, I ran across a couple of things that have stayed with me always. One was a verse that said:
No written word, no spoken plea,
Can teach our youth what they should be,
Nor all the books on all the shelves.
It's what the teachers are themselves.
We need that. We need good, positive models. Another thing that I ran across that I've never forgotten was a poem by Glennice Harmon, who had been teaching for many years and was asked why she taught. She wrote:
They ask me why I teach
And I reply, "Where could I find more splendid company?"
There sits a statesman,
Strong, unbiased, wise,
Another later Webster
Silver-tongued.
And there a doctor
Whose quick, steady hand
Can mend a bone or stem the lifeblood's flow.
A builder sits beside him --
Upward rise the arches of that church he builds wherein
That minister will speak the word of God,
And lead a stumbling soul to touch the Christ.
And, all about
A lesser gathering
Of farmers, merchants, teachers,
Laborers, men
Who work and vote and build
And plan and pray into a great tomorrow.
And, I say,
"I may not see the church,
Or hear the word,
Or eat the food their hands will grow."
And yet -- I may.
And later I may say,
"I knew the lad, And he was strong,
Or weak, or kind, or proud
Or bold or gay.
I knew him once,
But then he was a boy."
They ask my why I teach and I reply,
"Where could I find more splendid company?"
As a teacher, you see that. You see these youngsters grow up. I saw all those in many of my classes. I saw a youngster become an admiral in the Navy. I saw them become doctors and dentists and all different professions. Whether you did really or not, you like to feel, maybe I helped them a little. Maybe I did in a little way. And, if some of them failed for some reason, "What could I have done?" You think about that.
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Gotta Love It (Score: 1)
by TheIdealNate on Tuesday, May 08 @ 15:20:28 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | It is painfully obvious that to get a point across, I used an extreme to call this week "evil."
Thanks for pointing THAT out, and ignoring the points.
To Michael B. YOU know that being a teacher is what i want to be. Teachers are not evil, but the focus society puts on appreciating a group of people who are paid to do what they do is ridiculous. Especially when considering the demeaning of the American family that the very same culture does. Teachers are not "honorable" because they are teachers. Only honorable teachers are honorable. But none deserve a "week" of appreciating.
JHedges: Darn right. I SHOULD NEVER be praised for just doing my job. That is another thing anyone who knows me knows, I HATE being called a hero, and I hate being put on a pedestal for the purposes of justifying this war as our government does. I love America, but I get paid to do what I do and I CHOSE my profession. I don't deserve a week either! (I also hate medal hounds...people who try to do what they do for the purpose of recognition, and not for the sake of just doing it).
Very interesting responses, but none to the point except JL...Teachers and parents are not even close to the same level. One gets paid, one sacrifices. One does a service, the other is a servant.
That is the simple point of my purposefully extreme statement!
God Bless
Nate |
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Perhaps they SHOULD be ashamed! (Score: 1)
by EWMI on Wednesday, May 09 @ 00:22:57 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895
This is the eighth-grade final exam* from 1895 from Salina, Kansas. It was taken
from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society
and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10.Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?
Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10.Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the
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Re: Teacher's plunder is evil. (Score: 1)
 by Windpressor (Giddi_one) on Wednesday, May 09 @ 03:31:10 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | *******************
Teaching Happens. Like other human functions, it can be good or bad.
It is known to occur in the top 2 institutions first thought of when the idea of "lockdown" is entertained.
I am of an optimistic persuasion about truth-bearing liberation such as invoked from John 8:30-32. Though it does seem that the course must traverse through shadowed valleys of disillusionment.
I don't see where a soldier, cop, or teacher is of more societal value or worth greater honor over a truck-stop waitress, an "untouchable" latrine worker in India or a catfish plant worker, in Mississippi, ruined by repetitive injury.
Watch PBS or 60 Minutes or 20/20. Read a little.
The sobering truth is that we owe our very existence to the colonial slave economy and ancestral debaucheries attendant with the War Between the States in addition to disadvantages bestowed by more recent circumstance. Would some pro-life extremist dare claim that the embryonic miscarriage, 15 months prior, has equal life value to my own first gasps? Can not abortion just as easily be found justifiable by scripture? --
Ecclesiastes 4:2-4(ESV)
2And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive. 3But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.
Perhaps I digress philosophical.
Nate, the unease you experience may only be symptomatic of a deeper angst. Another blind man, of finer dexterity than me, might better describe the textures of a living room oriented pachyderm. Two things that I have noticed about the public education issue is that:
1. "Public Schoolism" is essentially a religion contrary to the intent of the establishment clause and other state legislations.
AND
2. While the idea of "justifiable plunder" is euphemized as "tax" and "children first", the reality is that a "property tithe" is imposed that is nothing more than theft. However enthralled one might be by matters of "educational excellence" and the grandiloquent pedagogy cathedrals, they are endowed by share in stolen property.
The morality of redistributions for education seems to be acceptable without question, however, Gary Demar has addressed the ideological conflict and supports my contention that "Schoolism" is government endorsed religion --
What the Battle’s All About
"... The classroom has become the laboratory where the secularist worldview has been formulated. There can’t be any worldview competition. Here is a prominent humanist educator explaining the humanist goal to reshape the minds of students to adopt a worldview where God is systematically removed:
'I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level—preschool day care or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new—the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of “love thy neighbor” will be finally achieved.' (emphasis added)
["A Religion for a New Age"Humanist Magazine(Jan/Feb 1983)]
"The goals of the humanists are clear and forthright
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Why Context Is Important (Score: 1)
by TheIdealNate on Wednesday, May 09 @ 15:19:17 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | In a lot of our debates on site like this, we all emphasize the need to get the context right. Once we do that, we can see the applications and purposes for what is written. Let me break a few down from this rant of mine.
Here are some comments and questions posted for me:
"But why is there a need to bash teachers in general?" Norm
"This is the "hasty generalization" statement I was referring to above."MichaelB
"You can't generalize though, and I think that is why Nathan's post has gotten so much flack."Tami
"Nate they are not evil just "full of themselves" according to you. Your "extreme statement" does nothing for a logical argument."MikeB
Ok...So where are these generalizations? Right here...
"Yes, I said it. Teachers appreciation week is evil."
This is not attacking teachers, it is rather attacking the emphasis society puts on their appreciation while all along degrading the family. I understand John H disagrees, and that is ok. But I am not attacking teachers in this statement, and Tami described it best:
"I remember those days: the flower on Monday, the card on Tuesday, something for the theme basket on Wednesday. And if you forgot, you were viewed as someone who didn't care (read: didn't "appreciate" LOL) Talk about
forced affection. Meaningless.
My other statement of "generalizing....where context has been most abused:
"Teachers are so full of themselves in this society that they forget their job every time they sacrifice a kids education so that they can strike for more pay."
this is clearly an "If the shoe fits, where it" statement. Now John H got offended because instead of striking, his wife gave up a percentage of pay and never got it back. That is not problem...clearly I am not talking about her or any other teacher that does such. Like I said:
"Teachers are not "honorable" because they are teachers. Only honorable teachers are honorable.
How extreme am I? Only enough to call the spade a spade. This is not generalizing all teachers, only the ones wearing the shoe. And in ALL cases, I have made a case that they do not deserve a week to their own for "appreciation" for doing a job THEY CHOSE. In this I am consistent in applying it not only to myself, but to all fields of work. Do your job, shut your mouth, do it as unto the Lord.
This has become an interesting study in the way people react to what is being said, instead of taking in what is being said. And more so than not, it has been very revealing to see how friends react to what you say.
God Bless
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